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Wish You Were Here
Rock · 1974 · 4 tracks

Wish You Were Here

Badfinger

A high-water mark of 1970s power pop. Lush vocal harmonies and mountain-air production mask the growing tension of a band at its breaking point.

November 1974 · Warner Bros. Records

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A masterful blend of sunny melodicism and an inescapable, weary sense of impending loss.

Tracklist · 4 Tracks
02
You’re So Fine
3:04
03
Got to Get Out of Here
3:31
08
King of the Load
3:31
09
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch/Should I Smoke
5:17
Moments Worth Listening For
The seamless transition between the pastoral piano of Meanwhile Back at the Ranch and the driving rock of Should I Smoke.
The sudden, soaring vocal harmony entry on the chorus of You're So Fine that lifts the track into pure pop bliss.
The weary, soulful delivery of the line 'he'll just make it a sigh' in King of the Load, capturing the album's underlying exhaustion.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Wish You Were Here sound next to the rest of Badfinger's catalogue?

Cabin In Woods+4.0σ

Cabin In Woods saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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